How is 'The Hunger Games'?

**surreal_charm** · 03-24-2011, 05:42 AM

i've heard quite a bit about this book and i really want to know how it is. anybody read it? can you give me your reviews so that i can decide whether to buy it or not?

**birsha** · 05-12-2011, 02:49 PM

Old thread I know, but in case you were still curious, I really enjoyed reading all three Hunger Games books.

They aren't really fantasy though. More like Science Fiction. It takes place on Earth somewhere in the midwest of the US I think but sometime in the future after a big war so the US government doesn't exist anymore and has been replaced by a totalitarian one.

Main character is a young girl who gets thrust into various life threatening and sometimes politically motivated events. They are well written and I actually like them quite a bit more than the Harry Potter books though those were fun too.

**sound of colour** · 01-02-2012, 01:56 AM

Really good book! anyone I've asked about it ether didnt know what it was or if they have read it absolutely loved them. Should be a movie of it coming out this year. ^^

**Black_Books** · 03-19-2012, 10:41 PM

I thought the book was pretty intense(haven't read the whole series). I had some problems with it and it has some problems in general and there are times where you simply want to throw something at Katniss.

Overall, don't expect it to be Twilight or Harry Potter. Don't assume it rides the same wave.

It's in present tense, first person, which is weird for a genre fiction. So you have a pretty unreliable narrator with Katniss. She doesn't know everything so occasionally you get hit with a curveball or pleasant twist.

Overall, 6/10.

-BlkBks

**Cmarie310** · 03-28-2012, 04:41 AM

I really enjoyed the entire trilogy. The best way I can describe the first one is as a cross between Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" crossed with Death Race 2000 with a bit of Dreadnought thrown in. It is definitely not "Twilight."

**DennyS** · 04-25-2012, 10:54 PM

I thought the books were amazing, however, I didn't like the movie.. but that's just me. A lot of people seemed to like the movie. I just hate reading the book then seeing the movie. I should see the movie then read the book lol

**ganesha1967** · 07-26-2012, 11:02 PM

Well, I read the whole trilogy, then watched the movie... of course, one major appeal of "The Hunger Games" to male fans, is the kick-ass aspect of Katniss... I mean:

OK, but the movie is abridged in several ways, so, indeed, the better sequence is movie first, books later.

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

**StpLSD25** · 08-23-2012, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by birsha

It takes place on Earth somewhere in the midwest of the US I think but sometime in the future after a big war so the US government doesn't exist anymore and has been replaced by a totalitarian one.

You're right, not fantasy or scifi. Sounds more like an accurate prediction...

**theAvenger** · 12-13-2012, 08:14 PM

Theyre GREAT. awesome voice of the main character and it doesnt have annoying, cliche "teen" characters. i was relieved

**e7m8** · 12-13-2012, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ganesha1967

... of course, one major appeal of "The Hunger Games" to male fans, is the kick-ass aspect of Katniss... I mean:

why? you apparently reference an image, but it's not visible.

I'm frankly very sick of the whole "warrior princess" cliche. I don't find violent or aggressive females, or ones trying to dominate appealing. Is that what you mean by her "kick-ass aspect"?

imho, it's only submissive men who are into that. you're welcome to like what you like, but I don't like it when it is insinuated that this is what all or most men find appealing.

btw, I haven't read the books or seen the movie

I like the concept of a film offering criticism of america's predatory social values, but I think I'll pass if it's couched in yet another female power/ego trip film